Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction: The Problem of Mechthild's Authorship 1
5. 1. Choosing the Vernacular: The Politics of Language and the Art of Devotion 17
6. 2. Visions of Authorship: Cloaking the Body in Text 57
7. 3. Transmission Lessons: Gender, Audience, and the Mystical Handbook 79
8. 4. Productive Consumption: Women Readers and the Production of Late Medieval Devotional Anthologies 132
9. 5. Historicizing Canonicity: Tradition and the Invisible Talent of Mechthild of Magdeburg 173
10. APPENDICES
11. Appendix A: Manuscript Transmission of Das flieBencle Licht cler Gottheit 205
12. Appendix B: Würzburg Franziskanerkloster Hs. I IIO (paper) 208
13. Appendix C: Budapest, Országos Széchényi Könyvtár Cod. Germ. 38 (paper) 210
14. Appendix D Colmar, Bibliothèque de la Ville, Ms. 2137 (paper) 212
15. Notes 215
16. Bibliography 289
17. Index 315
18. Acknowledgments 331